Dangerous Affairs (1993) User Reviews

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[je-remy · 3/10 · 27 September 2013]

My DVD cost 30p! And it was a double DVD too! I wasn't not expecting a good movie though cause the least popular ones aren't always the worst.

The movie doesn't start off bad. And some of the buddy dialogue is pretty good. Acting generally okay. Plot (writer who can't write a word) somewhat clichéd.

But AIDS isn't the shock horror thing it was in the 80s. And the chance of a bloke getting it from one sexual encounter with a woman isn't very high. So it all fell flat with me. Left me thinking how un-PC the attitude to HIV is (by today's standards) in the movie.

Worth an hour and a half... definitely not a recommend, no...

watching this is not entirely a dangerous affair

[KDWms · 5/10 · 6 December 2003]

Samantha is engaged to Adam but Samantha is "doing" Adam's dad, Harold. Adam's best friend, Bobby, a do-nothing barfly after his pro-football-career-ending knee injury, is unattached, but always looking. In a singular liaison outside of his relationship with Samantha, Adam gets it on with Lynn, who also went to bed with Bobby. Lynn is a nurse, who attends elderly AIDS patient. Mrs. Applegate. One day - before all of this - Lynn was caring for Mrs. Applegate and accidentally punctured her finger with a needle with which she had just injected Mrs. Applegate. Lynn contracted AIDS, which made her a sociopath, with DEcreased instead of INcreased inhibitions, and - you get the picture - a lot more people may be infected. The seriousness of this subject matter could very easily have further reduced my rating of this flick: Usually I avoid "heavy" films, preferring that my movie-viewing experience be more uplifting. But this production - although sometimes unevenly paced - lacked other elements to really bring it down, so, it gets a passing grade from me.

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[jacinta101 · 5/10 · 26 November 2004]

My dad bought this on DVD - it cost a mere 50p so I wasn't expecting much. The acting is dismal and the production is cheap, but it has that endearing quality that low budget movies seem to have. I think it lies in their lack of commercial success; so few people will have seen the movie that there is no hype at all, just the story.

The lead character Adam has a fiancée, who is cheating on him with his father. Adam cheats on his fiancée with a nurse, who happened to sleep with his best friend long ago when he was in hospital. It's an entertaining storyline.... Until you find out that the nurse has HIV.

The story suddenly transforms from a DVD worth 50p to a reasonable statement about this disease which is killing millions. A ubiquitous scenario in most modern-day dramas - someone is cheating on someone (who is cheating with someone else). How often do you think that - take this film for example - as a result of such trysts, Adam, his fiancée, his best friend, his mother and his father could all be infected with a fatal disease.

The film backs out of this morbid possibility by leading us to realize that the nurse really isn't infected. However, it makes it's point - in real life some of us may not be so lucky.